linux-kernel - Re: [patch 06/10] s390: Use generic percpu

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Message-Id: <1196351761.23168.2.camel@localhost>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:56:01 +0100
From:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 06/10] s390: Use generic percpu

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 13:09 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> s390 has a special way to determine the pointer to a per cpu area
> plus there is a way to access the base of the per cpu area of the
> currently executing processor.
> 
> Note: I had to do a minor change to ASM code. Please check that
> this was done right.

Hi Christoph,

after fixing the trainwreck with Gregs kset changes I've got rc3-mm2
compiled with your percpu patches. The new s390 percpu code works fine:

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.


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